> >> I have 2 sons. My brother has 3. My relatives have many. This means that > >I've been to a number of circumcisions and know quite a bit first hand. > >> 1. The person doing the job is an expert. I remember one Bris (literally > >covenant, what a circumcision is in Judaism) where the father was a doctor > >and he had like a half dozen other doctors there to observe. They never saw > >it done in a Jewish ritual and they were amazed with it all. > >> 2. The instruments are all clean, sterile, sharp, etc. These aren't some > >things you pick up anywhere but expensive, top of the line instruments. > >> 3. The child cries more from the cold than from the cut (which takes less > >than a second). > > > >This is the one I don't believe. Put someone in the cold and then slice off > >the skin on the tips of their fingers and see which they are more upset > >about. > We're talking about a baby here, not an adult. If you were present to hear the baby cry you'd probably agree with me.
You're not suggesting that babies don't feel pain like adults do, are you? OK .. here is some video of a circumcision. That baby sounds like it's doing a little more than complaining of the cold. http://www.cirp.org/library/procedure/plastibell/circ.mov > >You can't convince me that that doesn't hurt like hell. If it's not that > >big of a deal, why bother giving anesthetic to adults? If being cold is > >worse, then the adults shouldn't have anything to complain about. Sure > >would save on the medical bill .... > Never said it didn't. My wife stubs her toe and she screams and hops around thinking its broken (she has a low pain tolerance). A baby had NO pain tolerance. Any discomfort is pain to it. Is it equipped to tell the difference between the two pains or the degree? nope. I also don't believe this. Doctors used to think babies didn't feel pain at all. This is thinking had doctors even performing open heart surgery on babies without anesthetic. Now they know that babies have a fully developed nervouse system that functions just as well as an adult's. They can tell the difference between degrees of discomfort. Todd ______________________________________________________________________ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
